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絵本大阪軍記

岡田霞船 編 · 1887 · 聚栄堂 · 59 pictures

An 1887 Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) published by Shuneido, compiled by Okada Kasen and drawn for general readers of the Osaka war chronicle tradition. Its pictures are black-and-white line illustrations with boxed text panels in columns of vertical Japanese script, showing samurai in tense poses, interiors with screens, and garden or castle backgrounds, offering a designer strong examples of ink-line figure composition and vertical text framing.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library